Guess Who's Coming To School

 

It is the International Day of the Girl Child today.

The cartoon below was first published in West Africa Magazine, in January 2001 under my weekly page, Watching Developments.

It was reissued in 2011, the year the UN declared October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, “to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world”.

What's in a title?

 

Like I said before TV…01-03

Have you noticed when a couple or more Nigerians sit down to watch television, particularly current affairs and personality interview shows, they talk over the TV? Oh yes, they make side comments about the presenters and their guests. They make and take phone calls, fiddle with their phones, play loud music in the background, dash in and out of the room and yet, after the programme is over, they are able to tell you what the discussants have said word-for-word!

How? You will find the answer in the following cartoons.

Toothless

 

Desperate times…..

 

Quelling Hunger By Any Means Necessary

 

Sitting on a powder keg….02 Be wise

 

Sitting on a powder keg…01 Why me?

 

The Characters on my street

Nigerian politicians are inured to name-calling. They wear the epithets well, like their flowing Babariga (Agbada) that hides layers of grubby undergarments. You call them names in the morning and by the afternoon you have accepted their invitation to join them for dinner. That’s the way the cookie crumbles.

Damned if you do and damned if you don’t